EDITORIAL: Vote for change

Brampton Guardian

Oct. 6 marks a watershed day in Ontario as voters have the choice to re-elect a government that is spending like a drunken sailor or take a chance on the devil they don’t know— Tim Hudak.
Ontario’s debt grows by $685 a second, adding another $59 million daily to the total debt.
In eight years, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government has doubled the province’s debt by $110 billion— totalling more than $200 billion.
This can’t continue, or else we too could find ourselves in a U.S-style cash flow crisis in this province, unable to pay our police and doctors.
However, McGuinty will very likely raise taxes before that happens, as he has made it clear in the past that he can’t be trusted when he says he won’t raise taxes. Clearly, if he keeps spending he won’t have a choice.
Locally, our MPPs have been noticeably absent when it comes to issues facing Brampton, except for Linda Jeffrey who has worked hard to ensure Brampton Civic Hospital was realized and that the former Peel Memorial Hospital site stays on the premier’s agenda.
Jeffrey, we feel, has served her riding well.
However, our other Liberal representatives have failed miserably to address the issues here— infrastructure, growth, poverty, and social services funding.
We feel this not acceptable treatment of one of Canada’s fastest growing cities.
For that reason we feel it’s time for a change.
Tim Hudak is that change.